[Bug 585648] Re: find regex does not work properly

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,

1) I cannot reproduce this on current Debian.
2) The respective code is not located in find, re_match() is part of libc.
3) The fact that regex are locale dependent is expected behavior, e.g. in the Estonian alphabet Z is not the last letter and therefore e.g Y is not in 'A-Z'.
4) To matching upper case letters you should use the respect collation sequence ([[:upper:]] instead of [A-Z]) or reset LC_COLLATE to C.

Given all that, afaict from Google it looks like some in some versions
of libc '[A-Z]' includes lower case letters in en_US.UTF-8 locale while
in others it does not. See also #120687

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Title:
  find regex does not work properly

Status in “findutils” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: findutils

  I would appear to be a similar bug to #58883
  Some have said this isn't a bug at all but here goes.
  When in an empty directory using gnome-terminal:

  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ touch {A..Z}
  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ touch {a..z}
  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ ls
  a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  i  j  k  l  m  n  o  p  q  r  s  t  u  v  w  x  y  z
  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ find . \! -regex '.*[A-Z].*' | sort
  .
  ./a
  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ env | grep -i lang
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ LANG=C
  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ find . \! -regex '.*[A-Z].*' | sort
  .
  ./a
  ./b
  ./c
  ./d
  ./e
  ./f
  ./g
  ./h
  ./i
  ./j
  ./k
  ./l
  ./m
  ./n
  ./o
  ./p
  ./q
  ./r
  ./s
  ./t
  ./u
  ./v
  ./w
  ./x
  ./y
  ./z
  user at ubuntukarmic:~/f/Desktop/test$ find -version
  find (GNU findutils) 4.4.2
  Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

  Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
  Built using GNU gnulib version e5573b1bad88bfabcda181b9e0125fb0c52b7d3b
  Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS() CBO(level=0) 

  This is further discussed at
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1488843

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